AND ANECDOTES* i§S7 Vaccination. In the latter years of the last century, the small-pox pervaded West and South Barbary. Mr, Matra, the British consul* general to the Empire of Marocco, wrote to me at that period officially, to procure him every information possible, and to inform him if I could discover if cattle in this country were subject to the small-pox. I made every inquiry without delay, and I reported to His Excellency, (who was ambassador as well as consul), that I had ascertained that the horses, mules, asses, and oxen were subject in this country to the small-pox, of which there could be no doubt, as the name given, to the disorder in the beasts of the field, was the same as that which designated the small-pox in the human species, viz.

Jedrle. In consequence of this information, confirmed afterwards by other enquiries. His Excellency wrote to England on the subject, and, I believe, sent some vaccine pus home; soon after which Dr. Jenner began his experiments on vaccine inoculation, which have since been adopted throughout Europe, and in great part of Asia and America. Although I was thus instrumental in the propagation of vaccine inoculation, yet I never asked for or received any remuneration ; but I feel a satisfaction in having been thus instrumental of good to mankind, in this new and eligible system of inoculation, by means of which human life has been preser'd ; for, according to Sir Gilbert Blane's late statement, 23,134 lives